The Crimean War has been termed the first media war. The development of the telegraph allowed news of the war to be sent home within days rather than weeks. Photography for the first time captured the ...

When Ukrainian Leniie Umerova crossed into Russia on her way to see her ailing father in their native Crimea in late 2022, ...

How conflict in the Crimea, married with rapid development via the march of modernity, led to the launch of this paper in ...

Crimean War (1853-1856) was the country’s age-old vice: alcohol. From the inebriate and undisciplined peasant conscripts to their inept, corrupt and often even more soused army commanders, ...

A Ukrainian security official has claimed Kyiv’s responsibility for an attack on the bridge linking the annexed Crimean peninsula to the Russian mainland – a vital supply line for Russia’s ...

The Crimean War in French and British Satirical Press This exhibit explores representations of people and events connected with the Crimean War in the French and British satirical press. It focuses ...

During the first Crimean War, The Economist magazine — the same one that's still going strong — wrote a scathing piece in 1854 on Russia and its leader, Czar Nicholas I. "That vast state is in ...

The Crimean War brought about a sea change in Britain’s attitudes towards its fighting men. Previously the military hero was a gentleman, like the Duke of York, ...

The first photographs of a major military conflict were taken during the Crimean War of the 1850s. Nearly 175 years later, photojournalists are on the ground, on the frontlines of conflicts around ...

The Crimean War - LIES - European History - Extra History. Posted: October 25, 2024 | Last updated: October 25, 2024. Welcome Extra Historians to Lies, where we talk about the mistakes we made and ...

During the Crimean War of 1853-56, a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later ...